What is the best poem written by an American? The question is probably impossible to get agreement on, but few would argue that it is probably one of those listed below. Or do you have a better suggestion?
- John Ashberry - And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name
- William Carlos Williams - Asphodel, That Greeny Flower
- Emily Dickinson - Because I could not stop for death
- Sylvia Plath - Daddy
- Robert Frost - Directive
- Adrienne Rich - Diving into the Wreck
- Ezra Pound - Exile's Letter
- John Gillespie Magee - High Flight
- Allen Ginsberg - Howl
- Maya Angelou - I Shall Rise
- Robert Lowell - Memories of West Street and Lepke
- Robert Hayden - Middle Passage
- Elizabeth Bishop - One Art
- Walt Whitman - Song of Myself
- Robert Frost - Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
- Hart Crane - The Broken Tower
- TS Eliot - The Dry Salvages
- Wallace Stevens - The Idea of Order at Key West
- Theodore Roethke - The Lost Son
- Michael Donaghy - The Present
- Robert Lowell - The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
- Edgar Allen Poe - The Raven
- Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken
- James Dickey - The Sheep-Child
- Wallace Stevens - The Snow Man
- TS Eliot - The Waste Land
- Robert Frost - Tree at my Window